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AP
Monday: Burnt debris fills a garage in Southeast Washington, where a Washington lobbyist was found dead. Ashley Turton, the wife of a White House adviser Dan Turton, was found after firefighters extinguished a burning car in the couple's garage
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FOX News.com
January 10, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Homicide investigators were called to the scene Monday of a burning car that contained the body of the wife of a White House adviser.
Ashley Turton, a Washington lobbyist who was a former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and the wife of White House congressional liaison Dan Turton, was found inside the car located in southeast Washington. Property records show the Turtons lived at the southeast Washington home where D.C. firefighters found the body. They have three children.
D.C. Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Pete Piringer said EMS received a call around 5 a.m. regarding a fire in a garage. Officials determined that the car ignited in the garage and damage was confined to that area. One victim was found deceased in the car, but Piringer would not provide details of the victim to Fox News.
Progress Energy, where Ashley Turton worked since 2007, issued a statement that she had died.
"Ashley was a valued employee whose insight and hard work had been critical on so many of our legislative and regulatory issues. She was also a dear friend to many of us and this news is very hard to take. I know we all will keep her husband, children and parents in our thoughts and prayers. ... Ashley's tragic death reminds us all to keep perspective in all things," reads the statement by Bill Johnson, president and CEO of Progress Energy.
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